Looking to get an SSD, but dont have TRIM?

Xplo

Xplo

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Hi

I'm looking to get an SSD drive but i have an older Asrock Dual-Sata2 board from circa 2005/2006.

I do not know very much at all about SSD drives, but when they first come about i did a little research and there was a lot of talk about TRIM and how it was a necessity, however only newer motherboards and windows 7 were supporting it at the time.

I am just wondering what the situation is these days, whether this is still the case, or have they advanced enough or have onboard systems to allow drop in use on any SATA motherboard, like a conventional hard drive?

I am on windows xp still but if i were to go the SSD route i would certainly get a copy on windows 7/8
 
Xplo said:
Hi

I'm looking to get an SSD drive but i have an older Asrock Dual-Sata2 board from circa 2005/2006.

I do not know very much at all about SSD drives, but when they first come about i did a little research and there was a lot of talk about TRIM and how it was a necessity, however only newer motherboards and windows 7 were supporting it at the time.

I am just wondering what the situation is these days, whether this is still the case, or have they advanced enough or have onboard systems to allow drop in use on any SATA motherboard, like a conventional hard drive?

I am on windows xp still but if i were to go the SSD route i would certainly get a copy on windows 7/8
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TRIM is an OS program so as long as you have win7 / 8 you will have it.

You don't need it though its only for garbage collection and the better named SSD's have a good garbage collection on their own.

I don't have TRIM enabled and everything is fine.
 
Hi

thanks for the replies. Sorry to come back to this so late. Thanks for clearing that up. So.. aslong as i have Windows 7/8 and a SSD drive that either has its own garbage collection or i use windows inbuilt TRIM, i should not have to worry about short lifespan from the driver or performance decrease?

In that case could somebody please spec me a circa 64gb drive as an OS drive? I will be running from SATA2 so will probably not get full benefit from the highest speed drive, so with this in mind would prefer a more reliable drive than outright speed if that speed cannot be taken advantage of.

I will keep my 250gb raptor for storage etc

Many thanks
 
Wouldn't recomment a 64GB drive an as OS drive, too small. Just rebuilt my main PC and once I'd put OS and my apps back on it was up to 45GB straight away, that didn't include Steam or anything big like games either. If I had a 64GB OS drive, I'd be screwed now. 128GB is the sweet spot for an OS drive I reckon, that should handle all the apps you'll need and have decent space to spare.

If you want reliability then it'll be SATA3 anyway as all the later drives supported this, I'd recommend a 128GB M4 or Samsung 830 personally as both can be picked up for a good price and both are deemed reliable.
 
How would the 128gb OCZ Vector compare to the M4 as ive read a lot about that drive?

Also, I don't have ACHI available on my mobo (4coredual-sata2) would this be a problem?
 
Okay great

The M4 looks good to me then. I understand obviously windows 7 supports TRIM, and the M4 has its own garbage collection.

But should i be worried that my motherboard bios does not have ACHI and there are no motherboard drivers available that recognise TRIM?

Regards
 
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